Chautauqua Institution adds more concerts

Quick hits

• The Riverside Music Festival has finalized its lineup, and it's pretty spectacular, especially when you consider admission is free. The April 19 headliner will feature a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Bernie Worrell, who played in the classic Parliament-Funkadelic lineup, then later with Talking Heads. He'll bring his Bernie Worrell Orchestra. Hypnotic Clambake, which doesn't play around here too much anymore, will top the April 20 bill. Other bands that weekend include Broke Boland the Dirty Pickles, Blue Sky Mission Club, Adam Ezra Group from Boston, the LEC, Special Guest, Heliotropes, Scarlet Ledbetter, Birdsong, East Clintwood, to name a few. The event takes place from April 19-21 at Riverside Inn in Cambridge Springs.• Erie's Vendettas, with former members of Kristen and the Cosmonauts, will play before the Erie Explosion's home game Sunday at Erie Insurance Arena. They play at 1 p.m.; the game starts an hour later. Call 452-4857.• Train with Erie's Pat Monahan has added a July 13 show at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center in Darien Center, N.Y. Michael Franti and Spearhead, plus Gavin DeGraw will open. Tickets go on sale Friday at Ticketmaster. • The Crooked I has hot shows in store for St. Patrick's Day weekend: Chicago's the Tossers, Continental and Paddy Whacked (March 14); Ron Yarosz and the Vehicle (March 15), Aqueous (March 16) and the Tradesmen, Broke Boland and the Dirty Pickles, Fisticuffs and Glenwood Hillbillies (March 17). Coming later: Dragon Wagon (March 23); Eric Brewer & Friends (CD release show, March 30); Strangers and Liars (CD release show, April 5); Waylon Speed (April 10); Cope (April 12); Stoned & Beautiful (with Dreadlock Dave, formerly of Waterband, April 19) and, perfect for April 20, Conehead Buddha.• Justin Timberlake returns to host (and perform) on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" this week. Is it too much to hope for another digital short, too?

Another intriguing event pairs Paul Simon and current U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins for an evening of (dangling?) conversation on Aug. 16. That show will feature more talk than music, though Simon will bring his guitar.

In case you missed the previously announced shows, they include Straight No Chaser (June 22); Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers with Edie Brickell (June 28); a bill dubbed Sailing Rock with Christopher Cross, Orleans, Gary Wright, John Ford Coley and Player (July 5); Michael McDonald (July 12); the Golden Boys of Bandstand with Frankie Avalon, Fabian and Bobby Rydell (July 26); the Beach Boys (Aug. 9); and KC and the Sunshine Band and Village People (Aug. 23).

Just one open date remains (Aug. 2). Tickets for all the above will go on sale April 1.

Chautauqua also welcomes back a frequent guest, humorist Mark Russell, on July 3.

Is it ever too early to get revved up for St. Patrick's Day? Not in this city. Thus, Bastard Bearded Irishmen will pump you up on Friday at Sherlock's with rousing anthems like "Drinkem', Drankem' Drunkem'" and "If I Ever Leave This World Alive."

That's one good reason to check them out. No. 2: They'll welcome special guest Randy Baumann, an Erie native (and long-ago member of Plato's Cave). He'll join them on a few songs.

Can't make it? Bastard Bearded Irishmen will open for the Clarks on Saturday at Cleveland's Grog Shop and for Jackyl on July 19 at Roar on the Shore in Perry Square.

The Erie Insurance Arena's website lists an April 16 show by Roger McGuinn, formerly of the Byrds, but don't get too excited. That show will be at the Palace Theatre in Hamburg, N.Y., but the Warner box office is selling tickets for the show, including online (www.erieevents.com) and by phone (452-4857). Tickets are $34.

Tickets do go on sale Friday for one Erie show: the Justin Moore, Dustin Lynch and Chris Pardi country concert announced last week. Tickets are $39.75 and $25.75.

PACA, 1505 State St., will host a cool film and music event on March 22. "Bflo Pnk 1.0," from filmmaker and journalist Elmer Ploetz, chronicles Buffalo's fertile punk music scene in the 1970s and early 1980s that included the Jumpers, Mark Freeland, Lip Service, Pauline and the Perils, the Enemies and more.

More like the Vores, led by Erie native, Biff Heinrich, who re-formed the group in 2004. The Vores will play at the March 22 show, along with Unordained, which includes Burny White, Heinrich's brother. Vores also feature Dave Meinzer, who was in Davy & the Crocketts.

Quick hits

• The Riverside Music Festival has finalized its lineup, and it's pretty spectacular, especially when you consider admission is free. The April 19 headliner will feature a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Bernie Worrell, who played in the classic Parliament-Funkadelic lineup, then later with Talking Heads. He'll bring his Bernie Worrell Orchestra. Hypnotic Clambake, which doesn't play around here too much anymore, will top the April 20 bill. Other bands that weekend include Broke Boland the Dirty Pickles, Blue Sky Mission Club, Adam Ezra Group from Boston, the LEC, Special Guest, Heliotropes, Scarlet Ledbetter, Birdsong, East Clintwood, to name a few. The event takes place from April 19-21 at Riverside Inn in Cambridge Springs.• Erie's Vendettas, with former members of Kristen and the Cosmonauts, will play before the Erie Explosion's home game Sunday at Erie Insurance Arena. They play at 1 p.m.; the game starts an hour later. Call 452-4857.• Train with Erie's Pat Monahan has added a July 13 show at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center in Darien Center, N.Y. Michael Franti and Spearhead, plus Gavin DeGraw will open. Tickets go on sale Friday at Ticketmaster. • The Crooked I has hot shows in store for St. Patrick's Day weekend: Chicago's the Tossers, Continental and Paddy Whacked (March 14); Ron Yarosz and the Vehicle (March 15), Aqueous (March 16) and the Tradesmen, Broke Boland and the Dirty Pickles, Fisticuffs and Glenwood Hillbillies (March 17). Coming later: Dragon Wagon (March 23); Eric Brewer & Friends (CD release show, March 30); Strangers and Liars (CD release show, April 5); Waylon Speed (April 10); Cope (April 12); Stoned & Beautiful (with Dreadlock Dave, formerly of Waterband, April 19) and, perfect for April 20, Conehead Buddha.• Justin Timberlake returns to host (and perform) on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" this week. Is it too much to hope for another digital short, too?